La Rogivue

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Vaud (VD)

District :

Oron

Municipality :

Maracon

Coordinates :

558272 / 157145 coordinates: 46 ° 33 '51 " N , 6 ° 53' 40" O ; CH1903: 558272 / 157145

Height :

838 m above sea level M.

Area :

1.0 km²

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Parish before the merger on January 1, 2003

La Rogivue is a village and formerly an independent political municipality in the Oron district of the canton of Vaud in Switzerland . On January 1, 2003, La Rogivue was incorporated into Maracon .

geography

La Rogivue is 838 m above sea level. M., four kilometers north of Châtel-Saint-Denis (as the crow flies). The small farming village extends on a hill north of the Broye valley . Naturally, La Rogivue is located in the pre-Alpine Molasse hill country on the eastern edge of the Vaud Central Plateau . The former municipality area was around 1.0 km². The area, which is surrounded on three sides by the canton of Friborg , extends from the winding course of the Broye northward over the flat valley lowlands and the hill of La Rogivue to the marshland of Les Mosses . This moor landscape was acquired by the canton of Vaud in 1973 and declared a nature reserve.

population

With 86 inhabitants (at the end of 2000), La Rogivue was one of the smallest municipalities in the canton of Vaud before the merger with Maracon. In the last few years in particular, there has been a slight increase in population (only 65 inhabitants in 1997).

economy

La Rogivue still lives mainly from agriculture , especially from agriculture and livestock . In the area of Les Mosses, peat was extracted as early as the 18th century and then especially during the two world wars .

traffic

The village is located on a road connecting Palézieux to Semsales . La Rogivue is connected to the public transport network thanks to the Postbus course that runs from Oron-la-Ville to Semsales.

history

The first written mention of the place took place in 1278 under the name Rubea aqua (red water). In the Middle Ages , when La Rogivue formed a community together with the neighboring La Rougève , a noble family is mentioned who took the name of the village. Around 1300 the village came under the rule of Bossonnen.

Only after the Reformation did the community separate. The Reformed part of the community came under the name La Rogivue to the Bernese bailiwick Oron , while the Catholic part (La Rougève) belonged to the canton of Friborg. After the collapse of the Ancien Régime , La Rogivue belonged to the canton of Léman from 1798 to 1803 during the Helvetic Republic , which then became part of the canton of Vaud when the mediation constitution came into force . In 1798 it was assigned to the Oron district. On January 1, 2003, La Rogivue joined the neighboring community of Maracon as part of a parish merger . The formerly also independent municipality of La Rougève was incorporated into Semsales in 1968 .

Attractions

Web links

Aerial views of La Rogivue
Olivier Frédéric Dubuis: Rogivue, La. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .